Ian Sean Livingston
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The page loads on the current host are awful. Once I figure out how to switch, I will. Apologies to anyone visiting the very few pages here! Also, I’m going to try to blog at least a little more but no promises. At the very least I’ll update the publication page and such.
After many years of shooting with a Canon 40D, upgrade time has arrived. With the Canon 5D Mark II, it’s all in the details — and the awesome video capability which I have not even touched yet.
As an online type of guy when it comes to writing, I don’t fear the “death of print” like some of those old dudes do. But, if for some reason that ever happened, we’d probably all be worse off because of it.
Wonder why people flock to the Plains to watch thunderstorms even if finding a tornado is pretty difficult? Check out some awesome specimens of the supercell thunderstorm!
A several hour loop of Hurricane Irene spinning from North Carolina to off the Virginia coast heading into sunset on August 27, 2011.
Apparently the mid-Atlantic is earthquake country. I, along with millions of my closest friends, managed to survive yet another seismic event — the first significant one I’ve felt in almost two decades!
Fear not. It’s just been a busy week or so. I was off resolving the debt ceiling debate (yeah right, like that’s fixed!). Just because I didn’t post doesn’t mean nothing happened. Our quarterly New York Times op-chart on the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan hit the shelves last Friday and July finished just [...]
Featured speakers (in order of appearance) included Bill Read, the director of the National Hurricane Center; Brian LaSorsa of NWS Baltimore/Washington; Brad Panovich of WCNC-TV; Mike Smith of WeatherData; and a conference regular, winter weather expert Paul Kocin.
The 80-degree low is not very common at all, unless you’ve been around D.C. lately at least. While it may still be a bit of an anomaly, it’s becoming less so year by year it seems.
Ok, I am being unbalanced with D.C. climo of late. It’s a mindless task when bored, and I recently finished a compilation. Here’s a graph (to scale, if not clearly marked as such) of high and low temperatures by year in Washington, D.C. The change in highs has been quite minor though the range is [...]
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- It appears the battle against HDR is being lost. Will have to pretend staking 10 images to make something surreal is powerful work. 2 hours ago
- Thought but not said: Hey, you've got something on your forehead. 2 hours ago
- RT @capitalweather Fed up by DC lack of snow, 2 CWG members drove south to snow chase Sun. Read account, see pics: http://t.co/0mTiKsNg 1 day ago
- He opened with "what's the Brookings institute?" Then said only geniuses can think. Then he sang. Maybe he was mocking me. 1 day ago
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